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LARGE MEADOW BROWN.
MEADOW BROWN,
PLATE XIX.
Hipparchia janira, OCHSENHEIMEB. STEPHENS. LEACH.
" " CuRTrs. DUNCAN. WESTWOOD.
Papilio janira, LINN^US, (male.) TUETON. STEWART.
" jurtina, LINN^US, (female.) LEWIN. DONOVAN.
" " HAWORTH. HARRIS.
" hyperanthus, WILKES. ALBIN.
Epirephile hyperanthus, HUBNEE.
THIS Butterfly is also to be seen in abundance
"In summer time, when leaves grow greene,
And blossoms bedeeke the tree."
It is one of our most plentiful species, and occurs in all parts
of the country. I well remember the extraordinary numbers
in which it appeared in the unusually hot and dry summer
of the year 1826.
The caterpillar feeds on various kinds of grasses, more
especially on the Poa pratensis.
This insect varies in the expanse of its wings from one inch
and a half to two inches; the whole upper surface of the fore
wings is brown, with more or less of a fulvous tinge, with a
faint shade of bronze over it. Near the tip is a small black eye,
with a white dot in its centre, surrounded by a ring of orange
buff, sometimes more widely, though indistinctly, extended.
In some specimens there are two white dots, and in others
more. The hind wings are wholly brown.
Underneath, the fore wings are orange-yellow brown, with
a darker border of the same; the eye and eyelet shew through.